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Oscar Hijuelos is going to be a taking a lot of flack for his new book. The Fourteen Sisters of Emubo Members O'Brien. Readers expecting another gritty, melancholy and macho novel like. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love will be disappointed. Instead of the brutal realism of Mambo Kings, Fourteen Sisters is Latin American magical realism successfully transplanted to the United States. Where Mambo Kings depicted a world of men. Fourteen Sisters celebrates femininity, "the female principle of life, the nurturing things," as Hijuelos stated in a recent New York magazine interview...
...hundred and fourteen Black students were admitted this year, up from 172 last year, the lowest number in recent years...
TITLE: THE FOURTEEN SISTERS OF EMILIO MONTEZ O'BRIEN...
...musicians in New York City during the 1950s, deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize three years ago, making him the first Latino novelist so honored. But this time out, Hijuelos has decided to tell his story through a woman's eyes. Make that 14 women's eyes. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is the title of his latest novel, and the book oozes with femininity -- or at least with Hijuelos' version...
...Fourteen Sisters tells the story of the family of Nelson O'Brien, an Irish immigrant to the U.S. who travels to Cuba as a photographer during the Spanish-American War. There he falls passionately in love and marries the young and beautiful Mariela Montez. After the couple returns to the farm O'Brien owns in a small Pennsylvania town, he works as the local photographer and operates the community's movie theater, while she keeps busy bearing and rearing their 14 daughters and, finally, one son, Emilio Montez O'Brien...